Listed here are colleges ranked in order of the highest number of doctoral degrees per hundred B.A./B.S. degrees, signifying the success of the school in sending its graduates on to achieve doctorates in physical sciences (including subjects such as chemistry and physics). FYI, this list is from The College Finder, 2017 edition now available!
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1. California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA)
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1. Harvey Mudd College (Claremont, CA)
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3. Reed College (Portland, OR)
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4. New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (Socorro, NM)
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5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
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6. Carleton College (Northfield, MN)
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7. Wabash College (Crawfordsville, IN)
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8. Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA)
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9. Lawrence University (Appleton, WI)
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10. Grinnell College (Grinnell, IA)
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11. The College of Wooster (Wooster, OH)
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12. Haverford College (Haverford, PA)
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13. Rice University (Houston, TX)
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14. University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
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15. Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
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16. Kalamazoo College (Kalamazoo, MI)
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17. Allegheny College (Meadville, PA)
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18. Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
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19. Franklin & Marshall College (Lancaster, PA)
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20. Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, OH)
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21. Williams College (Williamstown, MA)
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22. Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, PA)
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23. Hendrix College (Conway, AR)
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24. Colorado School of Mines (Golden, CO)
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25. Macalester College (St. Paul, MN)
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Source: Sources: Baccalaureate Origins of Earned Doctoral Degrees (2003-2012) compiled by the Office of Institutional Research, Pomona College in July 2015 (https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/bacorigins_2003-2012.pdf). Data available from National Science Foundation through WebCASPAR (https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/webcaspar/). Two surveys were used to compile these statistics: the NSF Survey of Earned Doctorates (http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/srvydoctorates/) and the IPEDS Completions Survey coordinated by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/). The data were retrieved by the Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium.
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